She rightly distances herself from the folderol over BBC’s relationship with Microsoft and focusses on the bigger issues

Q: OK. Now, it was widely reported that the BBC signed a letter of intent with Microsoft which covered the iPlayer, DRM, and other cooperation. Have you seen the document? Is the document available? Do you know what it says?

Becky Hogge: I don’t know what it says, I haven’t seen it, and I don’t know if it’s available. Like I say, the Open Rights Group, we’re trying to move away from this Microsoft issue and look further into the future for the BBC. The BBC has got itself into a really sticky situation with iPlayer and with DRM, and I think it must be feeling bad at this point. What the Open Rights Group are trying to say here is that yes, these problems are real, a lot of our supporter base are using Linux operating systems and even though they’re paying their license fee, they’re unable to access iPlayer services. But we’d like to find solutions for the BBC, rather than more problems. And our big solution is that it needs to start reexamining the rights models. For the sake of public broadcast.

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